Rural School was step up for Hopewell Township

6:31 AM,
Aug. 19, 2013

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While elementary school students head back to area schools this week, including Hopewell Elementary School, many might not recall that the building dedicated in 1933 along U.S. 40 once housed elementary through high school students.

Hopewell Rural School was built to consolidate students from four one-room schoolhouses in Hopewell Township - Gratiot, Hopewell, George Ridge and Poverty Run. Later, students from seven other small rural schools were bused in.

These older students walking out of the school in April 1954 had just seen the building expanded by four ...